I am talking hardware format.
I was thinking Virus, Kyra, Kodamo EssenceFM, Digitone…?
What do you think guys?
Define Dune-Like soundtrack sounds?
i’ve watched a video of a youtube guy analyzing some of the dune compositions. and one take away was that dune sounds like it sounds because hans zimmer is creating own scales.
my assumption would be that all of the named synths combined with the right scale and uncommon sounddesign might sound like dune
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Peak is a beast that can do microtuning.
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…dreadbox nyx was THE bladerunner machine…and all dune is just around the corner…
but there is no such thing like the one synth…
microtuning/scaling, filter combos, various voicings and reeeeeeeverbs are the tools to tickle sandworms…
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I believe there need to be enough voices, sustain slopes, wavetables and such.
any polyphonic analog with enough polyphony
Don’t restrict just to HW, Zimmer uses the U-He Zebra plugin a lot. Omnisphere, Pigments + Serum too
Waldorf Iridium can create some stunning sounds with VA, Wavetables, Granular, FM and Samples all mixed together.
ASM Hydra Deluxe and Novation Summit are great too both offering pseudo Wavetable.
Deluxe has Poly AT which is brilliant for really animating your soundscapes
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Waldorf Iridium is almost that “ONE” synth tbf
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Hydrasynth for sure
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Before you go spending money on this or that synth, I would absolutely suggest you spend a good amount of time learning how to sound design these sounds first. The easiest way to do so is to use plugins. If you explore some plugins you may already have, or pick up some free ones, and spend some serious time trying your very best to get close to the sounds you are looking for, that experience will absolutely help you identify the hardware machines you need - way more than any number of suggestions you will get from anyone in here. You will have a better understanding of what it is that you require from a hardware synth to not just create the sounds you are after, but also create your own personal take on them.
Taking suggestions on hardware synths is tricky because, if someone cannot spend good quality time with them before committing or buying, then it is really a blind purchase, an expensive gamble, and while you can try something you purchased and then decide to sell it, you are putting a pause on the time you need to be creative with until you try a replacement. In these times where it is not as easy to walk to a music store and spend time trying things out, a good way is to navigate around that is to find a plugin, try it out on your computer - like really go deep with it - and then, if the synth plugin checks most boxes, do some research to find a comparable hardware synth with more or less the same specs.
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Isn’t there a synth called Dune? A VST or something?
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If you’re going for the VST route, just get a CS-80 VST. Add some modulation and that’s it.
Loose recipe for dune
Start off strange
Using something like a H. R.
Think in surrealism- Salvador dali
And some pink floyd
Plus something a little edgy like a mick jagger
Once you have collected all that blow it out of proportion into something around 10-14 hours
Next step: give all of that up and start over
Here you want to try combinations you wouldn’t think would go together- like Brian enough and toto
Think surrealistic again. Like david lynch, but make sure you water it down. Replace jagger with sting
This time you make it shorter, but still very long
And make sure it is just enough of a disappointment to you that you will take your name off of it, and not like it when people bring up your involvement with it. You should feel like you were selling out after making it.
You should know, it’s not really that bad though and a lot of people actually like it. And maybe after almost 40 years have passed, someone will come along and remake it again and maybe that will be a success
Sorry to not be any actual help (if your speaking of recent dune) haven’t seen it/ haven’t heard it
Moral of this story: relevance to creativity in soundtrack sounds (regardless of equiptment used)
heavily modulate ideas> resample the past
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Can you suggest a video to learn some of these techniques?
Check out Martin Stutzer on YouTube. He does a lot of ambient stuff and you can maybe pick up some pads from there. I watch it once in a while just to see how he’s working live since that’s my future goal. I don’t intend to do that kind of music but it’s great to see others and how they work.
Nobody posted the picture of the Digitone Keys buried in sand already?
What the fuck is going on around here?
Where am I?
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I would even say more Solar 42
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Hans Zimmer looped in a lot of wind players for the soundtrack
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Could the Stylophone DS-2 work?